Get child pages of a Confluence page
AI agents call getConfluencePageDescendants to retrieve information from Atlassian Multi without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves information about page relationships in Confluence. It performs a read-only query operation with no side effects, data modification, or external state changes. The retrieval of page hierarchy metadata poses minimal security risk as it only exposes organizational structure information that is typically visible to users with access to the workspace.
From the tool's definition The tool name 'getConfluencePageDescendants' and description 'Get child pages of a Confluence page' indicate a retrieval operation that queries the hierarchical structure of Confluence pages without modifying any data.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Get child pages of a Confluence page. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Atlassian Multi MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Atlassian Multi MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for getConfluencePageDescendants: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches Atlassian Multi. Nothing to install.
getConfluencePageDescendants is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the getConfluencePageDescendants rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for getConfluencePageDescendants. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
getConfluencePageDescendants is provided by the Atlassian Multi MCP server (ntlongctt/atlassian-multi-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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